Change of image

By Alberto Armendariz

NEW YORK. - Proud Feminista, wife humiliated, ferocious lawyer, faithful campaign companion, first revolutionary lady, ambitious senator and, now, exitosísima author. All those are the public faces of Hillary Rodham Clinton, a personality that has been changing with the times and in spite of their doubts, confusions and weaknesses, always managed to even project their independence being next to the most powerful man of the planet.

Means playfully, means in serious, its memories, Living history, Hillary suggest its incapacity to define who had to be and what it had to do was let traslucir in his hairdo changes. In fact, in the innumerable photos that accompany the book does not have more than two in than the same one shines.

For this so public woman, he was not far from easy to find it. But the years, the experience - and the scissors seem it to have helped. In fact, since January of 2001 she became senator by the State of New York, Hillary has not changed his blonde combed with jopo, short, decided and feminine.

She herself account in those pages that in 1972, nervous one before imminent the first encounter with the mother of Bill decided to cut the hair to impress to Virginia Kelly Clinton: "Before Virginia arrived, I had cut my own hair (badly) to save silver. He did not use maquillaje, and he dressed jeans and shirts work most of the time. It was not the type of girl of who Virginia hoped that his son fell in love (…) My style left it pasmada ".

But the most difficult task would come when arriving its husband at the White House. With all the attention on her, Hillary did not know what to do with his image. Desperate, he decided to go to oráculo of the North American elegance: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: "When I asked to him if she had to leave me into the hands of a famous team of image advisers as some in means recommended, she watched to me horrified: Tenés that to be vos same - it said to me -. If no, you are going to end up dressing the idea that another person has on whom debés to be. Concéntrate in which it is important for vos. Their words were a lightening ".

Today no longer she needs advisors and she herself is in charge of her physical appearance. Is it comfortable and safe: "it would enchant to Me to postulate me for the re-election in the 2006 - it said recently in an interview in which it discarded to compete by the presidency in the 2008 -. I am passing It very well being senator". But, eye! It is necessary to be kind because at any time a new haircut can mean that it has decided to stick the own jump towards the White House.